REPUBLICAN PARTY: The GOP Is 'Scary' And 'Out Of Touch'http://www.businessinsider.com/rnc-gop-scary-autopsy-2013-3/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Fri, 18 Aug 2017 01:14:39 -0400Grace Wylerhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51492fd369beddcf5b00000cAnd33Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:41:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51492fd369beddcf5b00000c
And their solution is to daub more lipstick on the pig. They totally do not get it. I guess it will take another few electoral kicks in the balls.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5147c7caeab8eacd7a000002labman57Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:04:58 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5147c7caeab8eacd7a000002
There has been some discussion regarding the winners and losers at CPAC, the assumption being that one must select from among the various speakers for the respective titles. Not true.
The winner -- whoever ran the tin foil concession stands at the convention.
The loser -- the Republican Party, which will be perceived by the vast majority of Americans as even more vile, shallow, non-empathetic, and out-of-touch than ever.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514788d2ecad04ef40000007ChrisMon, 18 Mar 2013 17:36:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514788d2ecad04ef40000007
Yes, I completely agree with that. Not everyone who is a Republican Party member votes the party line. I am fiscally conservative and socially liberal. Closer to Libertarian in values, but prefer to maintain GOP status so I can vote in the primaries.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514785a369bedd2434000010LibertarianMon, 18 Mar 2013 17:22:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514785a369bedd2434000010
I never said you said that. My point is the Republicans are as much or a bigger part of the problem than Democrats. Quit blaming others. Hold your party responsible. Reason pointed out in a good article, Republicans ratchet up spending, Democrats institutionalize it. Great charts to prove the point. My point is Republicans had no problem with deficits until Obama got elected, then all of a sudden they did. You cannot hold Democrats feet to the fire if you are a Republican party member, but you can hold Republican feet to the fire. Clean your own house first. Quit blaming others and lead by example.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51476bd5ecad041505000023toxic13Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:32:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51476bd5ecad041505000023
As for the Republicans — how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.
-H.P. Lovecrafthttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51476b9369bedd2a70000014toxic13Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:31:31 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51476b9369bedd2a70000014
Being more worried about stopping the Gay Cooties and making sure Obama is a one-term president is STILL not workin' for y'all! Womp Womp. Keep (not) Calm and Carry on losing national elections.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5147636a69bedd515e00000fChrisMon, 18 Mar 2013 14:56:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5147636a69bedd515e00000f
I never said "like Bush or Cheney". They got us into two unnecessary wars, enlarged the size of the Federal Government, and attacked our personal liberties as if they were Democrats.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51475df0eab8ea2e04000003LibertarianMon, 18 Mar 2013 14:33:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51475df0eab8ea2e04000003
Fiscally responsible like Bush and Cheney is scary. It is how we got here. "Deficits don't matter."
How short our memories.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51475d346bb3f7e65c000011Radio LIsteenerMon, 18 Mar 2013 14:30:12 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51475d346bb3f7e65c000011
Ever hear of Talk Radio? Hannity, Limbaugh, Bortz, Humphrey, Savage? Yes, the Republicans just can't get their message out there! Quit complaining. They have to many spokesmen, that is a big part of the problem for Republicans.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51474a19ecad043348000028CaptGizmoMon, 18 Mar 2013 13:08:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51474a19ecad043348000028
The biggest problem I see with the current GOP is that they can not seem to think,feel or give damn about anyone at all, UNTIL it effects them directly. That's when they seem to only give a damn. Take the GOP congressman who had a change of heart about homosexuality. It took his own son to come out of the closet for him to change his mind. Why? Why must it take something to effect them directly.They can not or will not think outside of themselves. They are truly wired differently than the majority of the populaces of the rest of the world.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514747a76bb3f7243700000fChrisMon, 18 Mar 2013 12:58:15 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514747a76bb3f7243700000f
Sounds good to me.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51474000eab8eac33b000004BossuMon, 18 Mar 2013 12:25:36 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51474000eab8eac33b000004
Yes the government can function without borrowing money from China and no it can not function when most of the tax revenues the federal government gets go back to the top 1% in terms of deductions.
For the budget to be balanced out for the next decade they need to close all tax loophole and eliminate all deductions it will also include a clause that unless you are disable you can not get a welfare check from the government without doing some type workhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51473e5f69beddcf7c000011Joseph GaughanMon, 18 Mar 2013 12:18:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51473e5f69beddcf7c000011
This is just more Republican 'humbug'. The party against the American Middle class.Less and less are being fooled by their lies and deceptions. Republicans are being seen for as the party of the privileged.Look at Ryan's budget and the untold hardships to so many Americans. Mc Connells constant lying about the AFCA "Obama Care",insuring millions more that Republicans would exclude. So let's hope
'WE WONT BE FOOLED AGAIN'!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51473e49eab8eaed35000007fredlledMon, 18 Mar 2013 12:18:17 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51473e49eab8eaed35000007
Next thing you know, Republican leadership. Will be telling us how the debt isn't quite so urgent to deal with.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51473de469beddda7c000003fredlledMon, 18 Mar 2013 12:16:36 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51473de469beddda7c000003
If they can just manage to appear less mean, old, racist, and scary, they'll do alright. It's all about appearances. They should study Apple and figure out how a company can be successful selling me-too hardware that is half as good and costs twice as much as real hardware from American companies like Dell and HP.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51473b7ceab8eaab2d000007Cant change their spotsMon, 18 Mar 2013 12:06:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51473b7ceab8eaab2d000007
Listening to the Cpac bits and pieces was very amusing to say the least.
The Republican party can not change from what it was to something different.
Marco Rubio stated there was nothing really wrong with the Republican party. For an up and comer in the party that was a very stupid statement and it drew cheers, hilarious. Kind of like Drill baby Drill...
You will never be able to take the Republican party with its current leadership and change anything or make anything of it. They choose to believe in creation over Science, contend that the world is just a few thousand years old, and have tried to legislate morality over and over and over again. They never seem to get it, and will never get it.
Lets face it, the Republican party is DEAD!!! You can thank Ronald Regan in my opinion for that, Thats what happens when political parties start holding hands with religion. Knowing what i know and what I hear I dont think I would ever want to live under a Republican regime like the last one we had again. The Bushes, Cheneys and Rumsfleds have tainted the Republican party forever!!
Its time for the Republican party to be replaced with the party of Liberty.
It will either be that, or you will live as a socialist, choose.
For me and my house, I choose Liberty,http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51473a34ecad046a2900000fdjmidwestMon, 18 Mar 2013 12:00:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51473a34ecad046a2900000f
Agreed. Almost reminds me of how fractured the Dems were back in the late 60's.
There are enough factions in the GOP to create at least 3 new parties. With confrontation and non-cooperation being the underlying values of most of these sub-groups they will probably continue to implode rather than work together. And if their focus is to simply polish their more extreme theocratic agenda, the majority of voters will categorically see the hypocrisy that the GOP "freedom lovers" are happy when you agree with their freedoms, not yours.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51473451ecad045620000009ChrisMon, 18 Mar 2013 11:35:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51473451ecad045620000009
There is nothing scary about fiscal responsibility. What is scarier is wanton disregard for living a responsible life within our means and not borrowing money or using a credit card. We make enough money as a nation to not need to borrow money from foreigners. We just need to shrink the size of government to fit our budget constraints. We absolutely do not need to provide the government with more tax revenues.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5147306f69bedd7e55000018SammMon, 18 Mar 2013 11:19:11 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5147306f69bedd7e55000018
The huge problem is for this party, and the big question is, how do you grow a heart and compassion? . It's like asking the white supremacists to change their beliefs. Pretty dang almost impossible. We need a third party. So we'd then have the far right, the conservatives (both Republican and Democrat) and then the far left.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51472dba6bb3f76d0600000cdljenniMon, 18 Mar 2013 11:07:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51472dba6bb3f76d0600000c
Speaking of out of touch, Obama just doesn't get it.
<a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/03/18/obama-appoints-radical-who-lied-under-oath-about-new-black-panther-party-case-to-head-labor-department-n1537241" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/03/18/obama-appoints-radical-who-lied-under-oath-about-new-black-panther-party-case-to-head-labor-department-n1537241</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51472cbb6bb3f7ce01000008cherrychewMon, 18 Mar 2013 11:03:23 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51472cbb6bb3f7ce01000008
And what kills me about the GOP is that they are so obvious in their attempt to sway the minorities into their grasp. What do they have on the table? Quid Pro Quo anyone!
And think about it, what the fuck did the GOP do during W Bush's 8 years for the folks they are currently trying to get on their side? Not a goddamn thing.
And we minorities aren't the only ones trying to get something.
The Koch Bros,Monsanto, Big Pharm etc are all in the game.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5147192269bedd0b1d000016jimmy mactheknifeMon, 18 Mar 2013 09:39:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5147192269bedd0b1d000016
GOP needs to do a better job of communicating the differences between them and the DEMs and why those differences matter. Unfortunately, the mainstream press will not give free communication so the onus is on the GOP to fundraise and communicate via advertising and blogging. Deal with the reality of just how out of touch the DEMs are with fiscal sanity, taxation, giveaways of hard earned tax dollars and the like.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514718fcecad041e6a000012cw7Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:39:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/514718fcecad041e6a000012
Don't forget having a slate of candidates who don't believe in science. It's one thing to try and keep the Todd Akins and Paul Brouns of the GOP from saying things that make the GOP like the party of the stupid, it's another thing to not actually BE the party of the stupid. Quick primer --women's bodies don't "shut the whole thing down" when raped, repeatedly saying, "I won't have sex until I'm married" is wildly less effective at preventing unplanned pregnancies than knowing how to use contraception and having access to contraceptives, the planet is older than 10,000 years... by a lot, people didn't live with the dinosaurs, Noah's flood is legend -- not fact, oh, and the creation of the Earth took much longer than 144 hours.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51471636ecad04ec65000007Really?Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:27:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51471636ecad04ec65000007
They're just now figuring this out? That alone is proof of how out of touch they are.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51471496ecad043e61000015GOP - America's TalibanMon, 18 Mar 2013 09:20:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51471496ecad043e61000015
Looking forward to the coordinated trolling efforts that will only confirm how out of touch there are.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5147112669bedde002000039mike24321Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:05:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5147112669bedde002000039
Rule 1.) Stop being sell outs to our corporatist lords.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51471026eab8eae74a000008CaptGizmoMon, 18 Mar 2013 09:01:26 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51471026eab8eae74a000008
Well you can start by reading a little about history and stop trying to eliminate education in this country. The Children are who will be changing YOUR diapers one day, just remember what you do to them.
The second thing to get started with is get rid of this annoying twits in your party that like to dress up colonial garb and preach about the Constitution without even understanding a damn thing about it in the first place. Again READ and learn your history first.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51470fa469beddc77e000022RyanMon, 18 Mar 2013 08:59:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51470fa469beddc77e000022
They needed 100 pages of research to figure out they were out of touch???